Species Temognatha conspicillata (White, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stigmodera conspicillata White, A. 1843. Descriptions of apparently new species and varieties of insects and other Annulosa, principally from the collection in the British Museum, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 323-346 [344] [spencii species group].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Swan River, Australia.
• Stigmodera signaticollis Hope, F.W. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Buprestidae from New Holland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 62-65 [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM COLE1008 sex unknown, Swan River.
• Stigmodera cyanura Hope, F.W. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Buprestidae from New Holland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 62-65 [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM COLE1015 sex unknown, Swan River.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1929. A check list of the Australian Buprestidae. With tables and keys to sub-families, tribes, and genera (by A. Théry). The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 265-304 [Date published 24 Mar 1929] [290]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Burns, G.G. & Burns, A.J. 1992. The distribution of Victorian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) - an ENTRECS project. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 5: 1-53 [9]

Carter, H.J. 1929. A check list of the Australian Buprestidae. With tables and keys to sub-families, tribes, and genera (by A. Théry). The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 265-304 [Date published 24 Mar 1929] [290]

Hope, F.W. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Buprestidae from New Holland, chiefly collected by D. E. Fortnum, Esq. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 208-220 [Date published 2 Mar. 1846] [209, 211] (signaticollis, cyanura second description)

Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part III. Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 21-126 [83] (conspicillata 2787, cyanura 2801)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [693] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement cyanura as aberration)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [693]

Saunders, E. 1868. A revision of the Australian Buprestidae described by the Rev. F. W. Hope. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 16: 1-67 [Date published April 1868] [30]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Sep-2024	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	10-Sep-2024	MOVED
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	25-Jan-2023	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	11-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)